Valve seat member



Nov. 3, 1936.

A. A. LANE VALVE SEAT MEMBER Filed Nov. 24, 1934.

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Patented Nov. s, 1936 VALVE SEAT Mariana Abbot A. Lane, O'Hara Township, Allegheny County, Pa., assignor to Gulf Research 8; Development Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., a corporation of Delaware Application November 24, 1934, Serial No. 754,666

6 Claims. (Cl. 251-167) This invention relates to valve seat members; and it comprises a double valve seat member adapted to be retained in a'bored mount and having two annular single seat members, one of which fits snugly in the bore and serves as a support for the other member while the other member is in active service, and resilient packing means for the double member so disposed that any tendency of the mount to distort the support seat cannot affect or distort the active seat; all as more fully hereinafter set forth and as claimed.

Replaceable seat members for ball valves are usually made double-ended. The replaceable seat member comprises a short metal annulus usually with a load-supporting collar and having seats at each end. The member is retained in a bore in the mounting (pump housing or the like), by one of the neck portions beyond the collar, so as to expose one seat for active service. When one seat becomes worn the member is re-' versed end to end, bringing the other seat into use. In constructions made according to standard specifications the supporting neck portion installing the seat or during use, therewould be of the double member is caused to fit tightly in the bore in the supporting mounting. If all manufacturing operations were carried out with perfect precision and if no strains were developed in no distortion on the member. As a matter of fact, the supporting bore is often not perfectly round in the first place, and distortions occur in fitting the seat member and in use. The supporting portion of the double seat member is distorted and the distortion is transmitted to the active seat portion. Distortion of the active seat causes more or less leakage of the valve. In this standard construction the amount of distortion produced by driving a seat into a slightly irregular bore may be sufficient to cause considerable leakage.

According to the invention I provide a double valve seat member of improved construction so that any distortion of the unactive portion is not communicated to the active portion. In some embodiments of the invention I do this by making the double seat member in two pieces-two annuli-and providing resilient sealing means between the pieces. In another embodiment I make the double seat member of unitary construction but provide resilient sealing means around the circumference of the member between it and the bore in the mount.

In the accompanying drawing 1' have shown more or less diagrammatically several forms f a specific embodiment of the invention. In these showings,

Fig. 1 is a view in vertical section of a double valve seat member having resilient means between the seat members,

5 Fig. 2 is a similar view ofa modification of Fig. 3 is a similar view of a modification having unitary joining means,-

Fig. 4 is a similar view of a unitary-double 10 member .having resilient means on the circumference, and Y Fig. 5 is a plan view of the seat members shown in Figs. 1 to 3. 1

In the showing the valve seat member is in 15 each case shown fitted into a bore 5 in a mounting member 6, which may be a portion of a pump casing, etc. The bore and the valve seat member are cylindrical. In Fig. 1 the member is shown as'comprising two exactly similar necklike annular seat members 1 made of metal such as bronze or iron, or other suitable material, and each having at the outer end a seating face .8

adapted to receive a valve ball (not.shown) and at the inner end a. collar or flange 9. Seating face 8 may be spheroidal or conical. It is shown as being conical. The double seat member is retained in the bore as by a threaded retaining ring ill in the pump casing etc. Stresses on the valve seat member during operation are taken 30 on the flange. Between the two seat members is positioned a thin layer H of resilient gasketing or sealing material such as rubber or one of the synthetic oil-resistant rubber-like materials exemplified by ""I'hiokol". The inner end of each allow compression to take place. The two members are joined by a relatively thin metal retain-' ing ringl5 rolled on the flanges, as shown. The ring holds the seat members together and also free space is provided for the ring as at H, to

prevents squeezing out of the resilient material under pressure.

In practice, the double seat member is installed in the pump, etc. by pressing it into the bore 5, the dimensions being such that the fit is tight.

If the bore 5 is slightly eccentric or otherwise 5 2 3,009,870 imperfect, slight distortion of the lower seat memtions. In practical embodiments oi the present her may occur but the upper seat member is uninvention, both'the seats and the balls last much aiTected by this distortion. longer than standard construction. The valve .When the upper seat is worn, the double memoperates for longer periods without development 5 ber can be reversed end to end as with ordinary, of leakage, and breakage is rare. 5 members. The invention is applicable to single-seat Fig. 2 shows a modification of the structure valves having a single seat portion and a ylinof Fig.'1' useful in certain installations. Addidrical supporting neck. The same advantages tional sealing means-is disposed between the accrue.

1o flanges 9 and the retaining ring It, as at It, to What I claim is:

give additional insurance against leakage. 1. A double valve seat member adapted to be Fig. 3 shows a modification in which the reretained in a bore mount and formed of two septaining ring instead of being a separate piece 'arate annular single seat members, one of which is integral with one of the seat members. As is adapted to fit snugly in the bore and serve shown, the lower seat member I l in this case asa support for the other member while the other 15 has the flange provided with an annular extenmember is in active service, the two seat memsion I8 which is, before rolling, of cylindrical bers being adapted to be damped together, and form. The annulus I! can beformed on the seat resilient packing means between the two memmember by turning or it can be a separate piece bers "so that the active member is protected from welded or brazed on. The annulus is thick distortion when the supporting member is sub- 20 enough to hold the two members firmly together jected to distortion.

j but thin and resilient enough to. allow slight 2. The matter of claim 1 wherein the two seat distortion of the lower member without transmembers are joined by an annular retainer. mitting the distortion to the upper member. In 3. The matter of claim 1 wherein one of the assembling the combination the retaining band is seat members is provided with an annular re- 25 rolled down onto the flange 9 of the upper seat taining member gripping the other seat memmember into the position shown, firmly retaining ber. the two members and the interposed sealing 4. The matter of claim 1 wherein the two seat means together. This modification is also remembers are joined by an annular retainer and so versible. Additional sealing material may be resilient sealingmeans'are provided between the 80 provided between ring I B and the flange of the seat members and between the seat members upper seat member, if desired. and the annular retainer.

, i Fig. 4 shows a modification in which the double 5. A double valve seat,member adapted to be member consists of an integral cylinder l9 havretained in a bore mount and formed of two ing two neck portions provided with two seat separate annular single seat members having ad- 85 faces 8 and the collar or flange 9 as described jacent flanges, one of the seat members fitting for the other modifications, stresses being taken in the bore and serving as a support for the other on the flange. The member is shown as promember, resilient packing means between the two vided with two annular grooves 20 in the necks I members and a retaining'ring around the flanges 40 on each side oi the flange. More can be used of the two members. if desired. Gasket rings II of .'I'hiokol or similar 6. An annular. reversible valve seat member material are set in the grooves, as shown. The adapted for retention in a bored mount having gasket rings can be rolled in or otherwise'fasa flat supporting face and clamping means, said tened in place. Dimensions are such that when seat member comprising a two-part cylindrical the seat member is pre s d in p a n a supbody with a bore running axially therethrough, 45 porting bore the outside of the supporting seat a seat at each end of said body for reception P rtion has a slight clearance indicated at 22 of a valve ball, one part of the body extending from the mounting bore. The sealing ring is into the bored mount and the other being active, tightly compressed against'the bore and firmly supporting flanges on the two parts of the cyholds the seat member in place while protecting lindrical body, said flanges being juxtaposed next 50 it from any distortion caused by imperfect figeach other, the seat member being clamped to wing of the mounting bore. This seat is likesaid bored mount by said clamping means, and wise reversible. an annular resilient member of easily deformable It is seen that in each case the active seat character arranged between said flanges, to prei Protected from d stortion by the bore moun-tvent distortion of the active seat upon distortion 5 ing. In addition, the resilient means in each case of the part of the valve member which extends are useful in cushioning jars and shocks prointo the bored mount.

duced in valve operation under certain condi- I ABBOT A. LANE.

I .CER'l'IFICATE OF CORRECTION.

Patent No. 2,059,370. November 3, 1936.

.ABBO'l A. LANE.

It is hereby certified that error appears in the printed specification of the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows: Page 2, second column, line 17, claim 1., for "damped"- read clamped; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the ease in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 29th day of December, A. D. 1936.

Henry Van Arsdale I (Seal) Acting Commissioner of Patents.

2 3,009,870 imperfect, slight distortion of the lower seat memtions. In practical embodiments oi the present her may occur but the upper seat member is uninvention, both'the seats and the balls last much aiTected by this distortion. longer than standard construction. The valve .When the upper seat is worn, the double memoperates for longer periods without development 5 ber can be reversed end to end as with ordinary, of leakage, and breakage is rare. 5 members. The invention is applicable to single-seat Fig. 2 shows a modification of the structure valves having a single seat portion and a ylinof Fig.'1' useful in certain installations. Addidrical supporting neck. The same advantages tional sealing means-is disposed between the accrue.

1o flanges 9 and the retaining ring It, as at It, to What I claim is:

give additional insurance against leakage. 1. A double valve seat member adapted to be Fig. 3 shows a modification in which the reretained in a bore mount and formed of two septaining ring instead of being a separate piece 'arate annular single seat members, one of which is integral with one of the seat members. As is adapted to fit snugly in the bore and serve shown, the lower seat member I l in this case asa support for the other member while the other 15 has the flange provided with an annular extenmember is in active service, the two seat memsion I8 which is, before rolling, of cylindrical bers being adapted to be damped together, and form. The annulus I! can beformed on the seat resilient packing means between the two memmember by turning or it can be a separate piece bers "so that the active member is protected from welded or brazed on. The annulus is thick distortion when the supporting member is sub- 20 enough to hold the two members firmly together jected to distortion.

j but thin and resilient enough to. allow slight 2. The matter of claim 1 wherein the two seat distortion of the lower member without transmembers are joined by an annular retainer. mitting the distortion to the upper member. In 3. The matter of claim 1 wherein one of the assembling the combination the retaining band is seat members is provided with an annular re- 25 rolled down onto the flange 9 of the upper seat taining member gripping the other seat memmember into the position shown, firmly retaining ber. the two members and the interposed sealing 4. The matter of claim 1 wherein the two seat means together. This modification is also remembers are joined by an annular retainer and so versible. Additional sealing material may be resilient sealingmeans'are provided between the 80 provided between ring I B and the flange of the seat members and between the seat members upper seat member, if desired. and the annular retainer.

, i Fig. 4 shows a modification in which the double 5. A double valve seat,member adapted to be member consists of an integral cylinder l9 havretained in a bore mount and formed of two ing two neck portions provided with two seat separate annular single seat members having ad- 85 faces 8 and the collar or flange 9 as described jacent flanges, one of the seat members fitting for the other modifications, stresses being taken in the bore and serving as a support for the other on the flange. The member is shown as promember, resilient packing means between the two vided with two annular grooves 20 in the necks I members and a retaining'ring around the flanges 40 on each side oi the flange. More can be used of the two members. if desired. Gasket rings II of .'I'hiokol or similar 6. An annular. reversible valve seat member material are set in the grooves, as shown. The adapted for retention in a bored mount having gasket rings can be rolled in or otherwise'fasa flat supporting face and clamping means, said tened in place. Dimensions are such that when seat member comprising a two-part cylindrical the seat member is pre s d in p a n a supbody with a bore running axially therethrough, 45 porting bore the outside of the supporting seat a seat at each end of said body for reception P rtion has a slight clearance indicated at 22 of a valve ball, one part of the body extending from the mounting bore. The sealing ring is into the bored mount and the other being active, tightly compressed against'the bore and firmly supporting flanges on the two parts of the cyholds the seat member in place while protecting lindrical body, said flanges being juxtaposed next 50 it from any distortion caused by imperfect figeach other, the seat member being clamped to wing of the mounting bore. This seat is likesaid bored mount by said clamping means, and wise reversible. an annular resilient member of easily deformable It is seen that in each case the active seat character arranged between said flanges, to prei Protected from d stortion by the bore moun-tvent distortion of the active seat upon distortion 5 ing. In addition, the resilient means in each case of the part of the valve member which extends are useful in cushioning jars and shocks prointo the bored mount.

duced in valve operation under certain condi- I ABBOT A. LANE.

I .CER'l'IFICATE OF CORRECTION.

Patent No. 2,059,370. November 3, 1936.

.ABBO'l A. LANE.

It is hereby certified that error appears in the printed specification of the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows: Page 2, second column, line 17, claim 1., for "damped"- read clamped; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the ease in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 29th day of December, A. D. 1936.

Henry Van Arsdale I (Seal) Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

